Made on a budget of Rs 350 crore reportedly, Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff’s Bade Miyan Chote Miyan was one of the most expensive films to hit the screens this year. However, it garnered just about Rs 36.33 crore at the worldwide box office on its day of release. It also opened to scathing reviews and received a mixed reaction from the audience. Eventually, its performance was declared underwhelming.
And now, in an exclusive chat with News18 Showsha, Alaya F opens up on the same for the first time. Talking about how she always knew that a commercial potboiler wouldn’t impress critics, she tells us, “It didn’t bother me because I feel that I got a lot from the film. I managed to reach a new audience who perhaps didn’t know of me. When you’re making a film of that scale and an action masala one at that, the reviews aren’t going to be all about critical acclaim.”
A part of why she also remains unfazed comes from the fact that she knew that the audience and their choices can never be manipulated. “The main review for a film like this will always come from the audience. It received a mixed reaction from the audience and I can’t tell them what they should watch and what they shouldn’t,” states the actor, who played a researcher at Oxford University, undercover asset for the armed forces and coding expert in the film.
Alaya confesses that her character Pam was also at the receiving end of polarised opinions. “My character was viewed in two ways. Either people thought that she was the most irritating character to ever grace an action or they thought she was the most endearing character,” she points out.
Prod her further and she adds, “I chose to do the character in a certain way. I was well aware of the fact that she wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea. Sometimes, certain scenes after edit end up looking differently onscreen and that’s something out of my control. I gave my heart and I did what I thought was the best.”
However, the actor who will next be seen in Srikanth, had an inkling before the release that the audience might ‘hate’ her part. “At one point before the release of the film, I had a moment where I thought, ‘Oh my god, what if people actually end up hating this character?’ One thing I knew is that the audience couldn’t miss this character. You can’t not know what Alaya was playing because she was so out there. It was very over-the-top,” she elaborates.
Not the one to dwell on negativity, the 26-year-old remarks that she has chosen to focus on the silver lining. Quiz her about the same and she says, “I was just happy that I received visibility. Let people send me some hate and get angry (laughs). That also works. And anyway, the fact remains that every film has its own journey and fate.”
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